Classifying Residents who use Landscape Irrigation: Implications for Encouraging Water Conservation Behavior

Environmental Management

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 238-253

  Warner, Laura A ^a   Lamm, Alexa J ^a   Rumble, Joy N ^a   Martin, Emmett T ^a   Cantrell, Randall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience segmentation; Behavior change; Residential landscape water conservation; Social marketing; Theory of planned behavior; Urban irrigation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HOUSING; IRRIGATION; MARKETING; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; WATER CONSERVATION;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; IRRIGATION PRACTICES; K-MEANS CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL; SOCIAL MARKETINGS; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR; URBAN IRRIGATION; WATER SAVING TECHNOLOGY;

WATER RESOURCES;

WATER;

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESTHETICS; IRRIGATION; MARKETING; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEGMENTATION; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; DECISION MAKING; EFFECT SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLORIDA; FLUID INTAKE; LANDSCAPE; LIKERT SCALE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL SCALE; SOCIAL MARKETING; URBAN AREA; WATER SUPPLY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ATTITUDE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84968677302     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-016-0706-2     Document Type: Article

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